Rajneesh Quotes

If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.

There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

You have to be whole: rich in the body, rich in science; rich in meditation, rich in consciousness.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

Be in relaxation a few moments. It can be any kind of situations - swimming in the river, relax with the river, or sunning on the beach, relax with the sun - anything. Life is full of opportunities.

If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body, and only for the body, lives in sin.

Meditation cannot be taught, it can only be caught. I am meditation. If you are available you can catch it.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.

Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.

Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil.

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.

So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.

Then relationship happens. Before that it is just an empty name. Relationship cannot happen before the egos are gone.

In every relationship, you can always see the ego of the other, but you cannot see your own – and the other one goes on seeing your ego.

When people don't have much money, they invest in emotions... when some people have lots of money, they invest in emotional fools !

Relationships & personal Interactions are like having food...if it doesn't taste well, we can't eat it, no matter how beautiful it looks ~

Don’t be worried about the future. Live this moment so totally that the next moment comes out of it golden.